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Iran’s supreme leader said yesterday that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons but added
that if Iran ever decided to build them, no “global power” could stop it.

The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose 2005 edict banning nuclear weapons is regarded
as binding in Iran, told a group of visitors to his home in Tehran, the capital, that his country
favors the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons.

U.S. officials think Khamenei exercises full control over Iran’s nuclear program. On Thursday,
he rejected direct talks with the U.S. while it was “pointing a gun at Iran.”